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cultivator and hoe during all the grow- 

 ing season. The hop-vine is an exhaus- 

 tive feeder, requiring to be abundantly 

 supplied with potash, lime, and sul- 

 phuric and phoshoric acids. Gypsum, 

 (sulphate of lime,) Quick-lime, and 

 hard-wood ashes should be spread on 

 the surface and harrowed or cultivated 

 in. Superphosphate at the rate of a 

 hundred pounds to the acre has been 

 used in England with beneficial effect, 

 when the plants required to be stimu- 

 lated into rapid growth. Barnyard 

 manure must be supplied with liberal 

 hand, and the higher the stock are fed 

 the better will be the manure. 



It is of the utmost importance that 

 every operation connected with the cul- 

 tivation of hops be performed promptly 

 at the proper time, from the time of 

 setting the poles until the crop is har- 

 vested. 



PROPAGATION. 



Plants are raised by cutting off the 

 shoots of the preceding year and plant- 

 ing them early in the spring in beds of 

 rich soil, where they are kept clean and 

 well cultivated during the summer. 



COST OF PLANTS. 



We are not able to answer this part 

 of the inquiry, and request any of our 

 readers who have had experience on 

 this point to communicate it through 

 the columns of the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist. Those who have sets to sell 

 might do wf'll to advertize them. 



FRUIT AT OWEN SOUND. 



The fruit crop in the immediate vi- 

 cinity of Owen Sound was in some 

 respects very good the past season, and 

 in others almost a total failure. Apples, 

 pears and plums were either a very 

 small crop or no crop, while straw- 

 berries, raspberries, and currants were 

 very good. Gooseberries were not so 

 abundant. But we have had perhaps 

 the best crop of grapes that has been 



grown here for some years. We very 

 seldom fail to raise good crops of the 

 early varieties of grapes here. The 

 four kinds that seem to be favourites 

 here are Moore's Early and Worden for 

 the best two blacks, and Lindley and 

 Brighton for red. We have not fruited 

 anything in the green grape line that has 

 proved a success yet. 



Thomas Brownlie. 



Note by the Editor. — Will Mr. 

 Brownlie do our readers the favor to 

 inform them, through the Canadian 

 Horticulturist, what varieties of white 

 or green grapes have been tried at Owen 

 Sound, so that those who reside in that 

 vicinity may be saved the dissappoint- 

 ment and expense consequent upon 

 planting varieties known by trial not to 

 succeed. 



SHAKKSPEARE AND BERRIES. 



FRUIT AND SHADE. 



" The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, 

 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, 

 Neighbored by fruit of baser quality." 



Shakespeare, Henry V., 1. 1. 60. 



This circumstance so graphically no- 

 ted by the great dramatist as being 

 true in his day, has also been noticed 

 by moderns as still remarkably true in 

 isolated cases. But this will not by 

 any means do for a principle of action. 

 The practical facts underlying succesful 

 fruit culture in any times, either ancient 

 or modern, are not exactly in accord 

 with this statement. 



Neither would it be either wise or 

 prudent to attempt to verify the deep 

 truthfulness of these statements by 

 planting choice Daniel Boons, Man- 

 chesters, or James Vicks, or even Jewels 

 in the midst of untilled negligence, or 

 of rampant choking nettles. Neither 

 is it found in modern practice that the 

 finest results are obtained by thrusting 

 in a plant here and there, even of the 



